Help with RH5.2 GNOME Installation

From: darrell earnshaw sap-ag de (Darrell Earnshaw)

To: gnome-list gnome org

Subject: Help with RH5.2 GNOME Installation

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:09:02 +0100 (MET)

Hi,
This is my first message to the GNOME list, so if my question has
already been addressed - my apologies, and please direct me to the
appropriate source.
I have just purchased RedHat 5.2 with the express purpose of running
GNOME. However, it appears that the installation script (install-gnome)
doesn't seem to run "out of the box". The first problem I hit is an
error message to the effect: "imlib = 1.8 is needed by
imlib-cfgeditor-1.8-5". Attempts to update imlib-cfgeditor yield yet
more depedency errors, and so on. I guess the initial question is: Has
anyone successfully managed to execute the RedHat GNOME installation
script without hours of depedency-chasing? If so, I'd really appreciate
some guidance on where I may be going wrong. (Interestingly, the 5.1
installation script wouldn't even run, hence the move to 5.2. Maybe
there's a trend here.)
Thanks in advance,
Darrell Earnshaw
SAP Labs, Palo Alto.